Council to seek pet park funds

Tue 31 May 2011, 1:20 PM AEST

The Alice Springs Town Council last night passed a resolution to approach the Northern Territory Government for funding to establish a pet park.

Recently, alderman Eli Melky called for council to develop and sell parkland to raise capital and last night his motion to make public, archived minutes on previous discussions regarding selling parks, was defeated.

Mayor Damien Ryan says the councillors decided to defer further discussion until the June meeting.

"There were a lot of questions asked by different members when this came up two weeks ago, so the resolution was that the council approach the NT Government for funding for both a pet park and a regional park to service the northside of Alice Springs," he said.

He says alderman Melky's motion was defeated six votes to two.

"These are decisions that are made by council," he said.

"Not everything is brought forward, otherwise you'd never be able to discuss issues at all.

"I think the reaction from a lot of the other elected members ... [was] that the motion that he put up wasn't succinct or tied into exactly what he was looking for."